People reached remote Atlantic islands 700 years earlier than thought

By Michael Marshall

The water wrong the collapsed caldera of Corvo Island successful the Azores

Santiago Giralt

One of history’s top journeys has been uncovered. People arrived connected the islands of the Azores, successful the cardinal Atlantic, astir 700 years earlier than thought.

“We tin intelligibly place grounds of aboriginal quality interaction connected the islands earlier the authoritative colonisation by the Portuguese,” says Pedro Raposeiro astatine the Research Centre successful Biodiversity and Genetic Resources successful Ponta Delgada connected São Miguel Island successful the Azores.

It isn’t definite who the archetypal colonists were, but determination is grounds that it was …